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On May 21, the 43rd Cannes Film Festival in France officially ended.

Simon didn't go to Cannes this year, Ella Deutschman went there as usual, and Giuseppe Tonadore's second feature film "Journey to Family", jointly invested by Goldman Films and several European film companies, entered the main competition It’s just that compared to “Paradise Cinema”, which squeezed out “Sex, Lies and Videotape” and won the Palme d’Or under Simon’s operation last year, “Journey to Family” won nothing this time.

David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" won this year's Palme d'Or amidst a deeply polarizing word-of-mouth controversy.

In the original time and space, because of the controversy, "My Heart is Wild" could not even be found by the distributor, and only the producer could personally operate the theater.

Simon didn't like "Wild at Heart", but it did not stop Deutschman from buying the North American distribution rights for the film. In my memory, "Wild at Heart" was criticized, but the box office seemed to be good. good.

In addition to "My Heart is Wild", Deutschman also bought another film from Cannes that is very niche in North America, called "Judou". The North American distribution rights of this film should have been Mira Max's was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991.

From Simon's earliest "Lola Run" to this year's Oscar winner "Driving for Miss Daisy", plus the commercial success of films such as "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" and "My Left Foot", The Hollywood theatrical film market has clearly experienced a recovery, and major studios are making efforts one after another. Even the terminal cinema market has gradually opened up a complete line of literary and artistic cinemas in recent years due to the continuous success of theatrical films.

The involvement of giants has naturally squeezed the living space of independent filmmakers to a large extent.

After cutting "Paradise", "Sex, Lies and Videotape" and "My Left Foot", although only one of them has been distributed by Daenerys Entertainment, the Weinstein brothers are still as Simon expected. , is getting more and more difficult in Hollywood, and Miramax is almost unsustainable at this time.

It is against this background that Gaomen Pictures got "Judou" and plans to try to buy more Asian movies to operate in North America in the future.

After last year's test, Simon released the shackles of Ella Deutschman, and plans to increase the number of films released by Goldman Films to more than 10 per year in the next two years, replacing the original time and space Mira Mike the status of the industry.

Speaking of which, it's not just Miramax, the birth of Daenerys Entertainment is also squeezing another independent film company that should have risen this year, New Line.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was originally New Line's first global box office film to break 100 million. It was this movie that established New Line's status in Hollywood, and finally created the pinnacle of the "Lord of the Rings" series.

Now, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has long been a project of Daenerys Entertainment and will be released this summer.

New World Pictures, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, has also begun to make efforts in the field of horror films that New Line is good at. The success of the "Scream" series far exceeds that of New Line's mainstay "Monster Street" series. New World Pictures It has also successfully continued the horror movies of the "Haunted Ghosts" series and the "Children in the Cornfield" series.

After its release on April 13, Easter's "Children of the Corn 2," with a production cost of $3 million, was close to $25 million at the North American box office by the end of May.

Following last year's "Fighting Ghosts 2", "Fighting Ghosts 3" will also be released at the end of the summer season in August.

Although the "Children in the Cornfield" and "The Ghosts" series cannot compare with the box office revenue of the "Scream" series, they can bring very stable revenue and profits to New World Pictures, and provide New World Pictures The development of other projects provides a steady stream of steady funding.

Moreover, not only horror movies, Simon has also recently begun to guide Danny Morris, the head of New World Pictures, to try another type of commercial film with great box office, vulgar movies.

In the original time and space, two comedians led by Jim Carrey and Mike Myers in the 1990s opened up the market of Hollywood vulgar shit and piss movies, Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber", Mike May His masterpieces such as "Ace Power Spy" have achieved outstanding results in the North American box office of over 100 million. It just so happens that these two comedy stars have risen with the support of the new line.

That's right, after completing the truncation of Miramax, Simon's next target is the new line.

On the Friday after the Cannes Film Festival, that is, on May 25, Hollywood's 1990 summer season officially opened.

Universal Pictures' "Back to the Future 3" and Paramount's "Firebird" are the opening films of this summer.

After experiencing the halved decline of "Back to the Future 2" relative to the first film at the end of last year, Universal obviously did not have high confidence in "Back to the Future 3", so it was time to release the last step of the series before the fierce competition for the summer season began.

Still, the Back to the Future series is faring pretty well.

Paramount is obviously even more clueless about "Firebird", which naturally comes from the fact that Paramount 'stealed' the two projects "Rocketman" and "Firebird" from Daenerys Entertainment last year. .

Also at the end of last year, Paramount had high hopes and the comic book adaptation of "Rocketman" starring Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan, because of the impact of the film itself and "Batman: War Hour" , with a production budget of $45 million and a publicity cost of $20 million, it finally recovered only the box office of over $43 million, far less than

Paramount's expectations for this project.

The 'inside story' of the "Rocketman" series is not a secret in Hollywood, and Daenerys Entertainment also took the opportunity to promote a concept that a project she liked might not be successful in the hands of others, which made Daenerys Entertainment follow suit. The process of competing for film and television rights is obviously a lot easier.

In addition, in order to make time for "Rocketman", Paramount also moved the original Oliver Stone's new film "Born on the Fourth of July", which should have been very successful, to this year's Easter schedule. The film will be released on April 20. show.

However, due to the lack of popular support for various types of nominations and awards in the awards season, although it has won unanimous praise from the media, "Born on July 4" will only be released in the five weeks before May 25. The total box office is only 33 million U.S. dollars, although by virtue of word of mouth, "Born on the Fourth of July" is expected to eventually achieve a total North American box office of 50 million US dollars with a good lasting box office curve, but this result is still far lower than the original time and space of more than 70 million US dollars at the North American box office. data.

Oliver Stone was dissatisfied with Paramount's throwing his film on the Easter schedule. After the word-of-mouth and box office confirmation of "Born on the Fourth of July", the Hollywood first-line director who has been in the limelight in recent years is very popular. He bluntly criticized the serious mistakes of Paramount's announcement strategy in the media, saying that "Born on the Fourth of July" should have done better at the box office.

Immediately after the opening of "Firebird Attack", the media reputation was also bad. This military film about the Apache helicopter unit in the United States not to mention hit the box office record of "Top Gun" a few years ago, even if it was in the same period. Back to the Future 3 is nowhere near as good.

It can be said that Paramount is equal to 'screwed' three projects in a row.

Although the previous March, Paramount Pictures produced the second box office dark horse "The Hunt for Red October", which closely followed the Valentine's Day "Pretty Woman" in 1990, but Simon knew that when Barry Diller, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg teamed up for Paramount's deep heritage has been lost.

In the end, Martin Davis, chairman of Paramount Communications, who single-handedly squeezed any of the three Barry Diller outstanding executives to support a major film company, had to sell Paramount to Victoria. Summer Redstone of Yacomb.

Palo Alto, San Francisco.

The time is May 26th. In addition to taking into account the dc movie universe and other businesses of Daenerys Entertainment, Simon also flew to Silicon Valley frequently during this time, but rarely stayed for a week like last time, usually on the same day. will return.

It's Saturday, and Simon flew to his San Francisco destination to check out AOL-led internet cafe projects.

Prior to this, Westeros had completed the redistribution of the three companies' equity interests in Cisco, America Online and Igret.

The capital injection process for AOL was completely completed, and Westeros' shareholding increased to 75%.

At the same time, Westeros also completed the acquisition of a total of 42.5% of the shares of several other Cisco shareholders at a valuation of $300 million. After the transaction, Westeros paid $127.5 million to make its own The stake in Cisco increased to 57.5%.

In addition, after a year of operation, Simon's initial capital injection into Igreat has also been exhausted, and Igreat has obviously not generated revenue that can maintain daily operations.

Westeros recapitalizes Igreat at a valuation of $20 million, which is also $20 million.

Simon originally gave Tim Berners-Lee 10% of the shares of Eagle Ritter Company. This time, Simon did not deliberately reduce the shareholding ratio of Tim Berners-Lee. He also proposed to take no shares. He lent Li a sum of money in the form of an interest loan, allowing him to maintain his shareholding.

However, Tim Berners-Lee, who is more conservative in character, did not suddenly have the intention of increasing his debt by 2 million, so his equity was compressed to 5%.

The Westeros Company's shareholding in Igret was thus increased to 95%.

personnel.

At the invitation of Simon, John Chambers, who originally worked in IBM, officially joined Cisco and temporarily served as the company's president. Simon plans to let John Chambers take over after the contract expires at the end of next year.

Carol Bartz from Sun and Jeff Bezos, who was pulled into the Internet industry by Simon from Wall Street ahead of schedule, quickly entered their roles and have begun to control the day-to-day operations of Igret.

In the last AOL, the management will not make adjustments for the time being.

However, this month, due to the continuous increase in exposure and its own efforts in marketing, as well as the official launch of Igreit's graphical interface browser and portal business, AOL's performance has experienced a small explosion. .

In just this month, the number of AOL users has increased by 38,000, and the total number of users has exceeded 100,000 in one fell swoop.

In fact, this is actually the result of the accumulation of American PC users since the 1970s, and the huge user base has long since contributed to all this.

In Simon's memory, when the Internet began to explode, AOL's user base surpassed the 10 million mark in 1996 from the hundreds of thousands in 1993 in just three years.

While expanding new users, Steve Case also effectively provided free upgrades for existing AOL users, retaining some of the original online game functions, and installing modems more suitable for accessing the World Wide Web. and ie browser.

The technical team led by Tim Berners-Lee, the next step is to further improve the i

The dynamic web page and graphic display function of e-browser can integrate the online games and other functions originally operated by America Online into ie-browser.

In order to achieve this goal, Simon had hired another computer language development team from Sun before hiring Carol Bartz from that company.

In the original time and space, the team, which was originally unknown under the sun, launched the java language more powerful than the c language in the following years, and further launched the embedded language javascript, which greatly improved the display function of Internet web pages.

In order to get the team, Simon and sun agreed that the team's expenses would be in charge of Igrete, and the java language patents originally planned to be developed still belong to sun, but the web page embedded language javascript patents developed at the same time belong to Igre Owned by the company.

Although javascript still needs about a year to be perfected, with the cooperation of the IE team, many functions have been implemented in advance.

It seems that the Igreit portal website suddenly appeared, as well as the functions of online news, e-mail, personal homepage, online forum, etc., have attracted more and more media and public attention during this period.

Inside a store on a commercial street near the Eagle Company.

Simon, Tim Berners-Lee, Carol Butts, John Chambers, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Keys were all gathered here.

If anyone could be there to take a photo at this point, they would definitely find out in a few years what a strong lineup this would be.

The store is the prototype of the Internet cafe led by AOL, which is the result of nearly a month of busy work after the AOL team moved to Silicon Valley.

Compared with the dark and dark Internet cafes in Simon's memory, the Internet cafes in front of them can really be called 'bars'. The Internet cafe plan proposed by Simon is not for making money, but just to promote AOL, Igret and even Cisco's products, so , the shop is basically based on the casual layout of a traditional coffee shop.

The model in front of us is a very spacious 50-square-meter store layout. There are only 20 latest models equipped with desktop computers, or a couples seat layout, or a private small space with a block, or a word-line arrangement that is very suitable for communication. .

Not only surfing the Internet, but also providing a variety of drinks and snacks in the Internet cafe, giving people a relaxed and comfortable home-like environment as much as possible.

In terms of price, Simon really wants to adopt the subsidy operation model in his memory, after all, it is for brand promotion.

However, because AOL has specially registered the subsidiary 'intercom bar' brand and introduced 40% of ibm's shareholding investment, profits must still be considered, so the hourly Internet price is set at $3, additional drinks, snacks, etc. Calculate separately.

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